The ice beneath you
Subtitle: a novel
By: Christian Bauman.
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Americans -- Somalia -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; Somalia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Benjamin Jones, twenty-three, discharged after an army tour in Somalia, heads cross-country on a Greyhound, seeking refuge on the West Coast. He has left behind his best friend, Trevor, and Liz Ross, a female soldier with whom Jones has fallen in love. But Jones has also left behind a tragedy - a horrible, split-second action made in Somalia - that Trevor, Jones, and the army have implicitly agreed to forget.".

"Alone on the streets of San Francisco, and then north on the Washington coast, Jones finds that an uneducated ex-soldier is qualified only as a peep show fantasy object or as a hired hand to a bottom-feeding smuggler and pornographer. Recurring visions of his life as a soldier gradually reveal the full truth - and agony - of his experience, and a reunion with Liz and a violent confrontation with Trevor bring the young soldier's journey to a wrenching conclusion - but one not without hope."--BOOK JACKET.